[CentOS] Serious desktop/mouse problem in Gnome

Tue Feb 21 20:45:50 UTC 2006
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

At 02:40 PM 2/21/2006, Craig White wrote:
>On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:29 -0500, William (Bill) E. T. wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 13:55 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Just touch it and it goes all over the place.  Things start dropping
> > > > > and draging.   The system bar is on the top now and the action
> > > > bar on the side.
> > > > >
> > > > > If I manage to get a terminal window open and leave the mouse alone,
> > > > > I can type.
> > > > >
> > > > > Also <alt-cnlt-F1> gets me to display 1.
> > > > >
> > > > > If I go back to display 0, everything is still hosed.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any pointers?  Some mouse file out of align and too sensitive?  How I
> > > > > fix this and reset things?
> >
> > I haven't followed this thread closely, so sorry if this has already
> > been suggested.  On my KVM at work, if I switch over to a windows
> > computer and then back to my linux box my mouse goes crazy (I don't know
> > why, but its common to our Belkin KVM's).  If I unplug and replug my
> > mouse, everything works fine after then.  Does this work for you?
>----
>the well known belkin kvm switch fix...
>
>psmouse.proto=bare
>
>tack that onto the end of your 'kernel' line in /boot/grub/grub.conf
>
>--- you will lose the 'mouse wheel' on the top but it won't go crazy

To the end of /boot/grub/grub.conf I added the line:

psmouse.proto=imps

then I tried bare

neither made a difference.

I am running at init 3 now, the after logging in, typing init 5 to bring up X